networked audio

2009-03-22 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my offic

Re: networked audio

2009-03-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] > simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a > remote computer (say, 25m apart)  and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on > the distant comput

Re: networked audio

2009-03-22 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:31:00 +0200, Gary Kline wrote: The only suite I tried was NAS but that was years ago. I've found "MuSe" and "NMM" on both FreeBSD and Linux, but still need some clues. I use samba (a bit tricky but it can be done). Wanted to use NFS but unfortunatelly I couldn't get

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my office? cat

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] > >simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a > >remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on > >the distant c

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > >This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] > > >simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a > > >remote computer (sa

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:50:27PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] > > > >simple ways to set up a

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:54:06 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Be great to have some > utimate setup (*sigh...*). You'll never have. At the moment you've setup something, just after bringing it home from the shop, it will be considered outdated, and there's already something new on the way that's

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:01:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:54:06 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Be great to have some > > utimate setup (*sigh...*). > > You'll never have. At the moment you've setup something, just > after bringing it home from the shop, it will be co

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:36 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > I thought you were kidding about the ogg123, but no! Is there a > wav123, an au123, &c? :_) wait, I just checked and there *is* a > flac123. i'll be [bleeped]. :-) > ANyway, re xmms2, it's built (I had it

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:41:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:36 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > I thought you were kidding about the ogg123, but no! Is there a > > wav123, an au123, &c? :_) wait, I just checked and there *is* a > > flac123. i'll be [ble